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In today's film, a teenage swimmer develops a crush on his coach. He concocts a way to spend the night with the coach through a series of diversions, some quite clever. A speck in the eye that requires a visit to an outpatient clinic. A missing cell phone. Absent parents, an unavailable grandmother. A friend who he was supposed to spend the night with but is somehow not available.

Ausente / Absent (2011)

The coach finally, in desperation, breaks basic rules and lets the kid stay overnight with him.

Long drawn out scenes of the kid fantasizing about the coach, eventually touching him in bed and so on.

The suspense is quite excruciating. We kinda want a consummation but know that would be a terrible thing to have happen.

I will leave the rest to be explored by the reader.

This is a great film. Most of what happens is in our mind. The tension, the expectation, the wanting something to happen which should not. Berger puts it all on us and is relentless in keeping things on the edge.

This is a replay of a rating 5 film. I have it in my collection. I am watching the two Berger films that I have. There is a new one but it won't be along for awhile. Very good.